Missing Shipment of Raisins and Almonds

Genre / FormBusiness correspondence                     

Hierarchical Level             Item                                

Control No.  N/A

Publisher / DateI. Cockshutt and clerks, July 21, 1854

Description                                                                                                 Letter to W. McKay of Hamilton requesting an investigation into missing freight, including five frails of raisins and two boxes of almonds. Demonstrates reliance on railway transport and the monitoring of commercial shipments.